1912 French Grand Prix

Infobox Grand Prix race report
Type = GP
Grand Prix = French
Date = June 25
Year = 1912
Official name = Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France
Country = France
Location = Dieppe, France
Course = Public roads
Course_mi = 47.840
Course_km = 76.989
Distance_laps = 20
Distance_mi = 956.800
Distance_km = 1539.778
Fast_Driver = David Bruce-Brown
Fast_Team = Mercedes
Fast_Time = 36:32.0
Fast_Country = United States
First_Driver = Georges Boillot
First_Team = Peugot
First_Country = France
Second_Driver = Louis Wagner
Second_Team = Fiat
Second_Country = France
Third_Driver = Victor Rigal
Third_Team = Sunbeam
Third_Country = France

The 1912 French Grand Prix took place at Dieppe on 25th - 26th June 1912.

The Race

The race was ran over two days, with the drivers completing ten laps on each day and their times being aggregated to produce the winner. Coupé cars competed alongside Grand Prix cars. The coupé cars were limited to 3 litre engines. The only restriction on the Grand Prix cars was a minimum width of 1750 millimetres [cite book
last=Higham
first=Peter
title=The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing
publisher=Guinness Publishing
date=1995
pages=194
isbn=0-85112-642-1] .47 cars started the race at 30 second intervals, with Victor Rigal's Sunbeam the first to start.

Victor Hemery, driving a Lorraine-Dietrich held the lead after the first lap. David Bruce-Brown's Fiat subsequently took the lead and retained it overnight, more than two minutes ahead of Georges Boillot's Peugeot. Louis Wagner was third at the halfway stage [cite web
last=Boulton
first=Jim
title=Unpublished Book. Chapter 2 part 4.
date=1986
url=http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/genealogy/Boulton/Chapter2/part4.htm
accessdate=2007-10-18] .During the second day, Bruce-Brown was disqualified for refuelling away from the pits on lap 15 [cite web
title=1912 Grands Prix.
url=http://www.teamdan.com/archive/gen/1912/1912.html
accessdate=2007-10-18] , giving Boillot a comfortable victory by over thirteen minutes from Wagner [cite book
last=Higham
first=Peter
title=The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing
publisher=Guinness Publishing
date=1995
pages=196
isbn=0-85112-642-1] .

Classification

Grand Prix race report
Name_of_race = French Grand Prix
Year_of_race = 1912
Previous_race_in_season = None
Next_race_in_season = None
Previous_year's_race = 1908 French Grand Prix
Next_year's_race = 1913 French Grand Prix

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